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Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Donovan Kolbly (02 Jan 2006 14:54 UTC)
Re: Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Taylor Campbell (02 Jan 2006 16:28 UTC)
Re: Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Michael Sperber (03 Jan 2006 17:04 UTC)
Re: Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Taylor Campbell (03 Jan 2006 21:00 UTC)
Re: Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Michael Sperber (04 Jan 2006 18:19 UTC)
Re: Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Per Bothner (03 Jan 2006 21:05 UTC)

Re: Revised SRFI-76 (R6RS Records) draft Taylor Campbell 02 Jan 2006 16:28 UTC

   Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:53:59 -0600 (CST)
   From: Donovan Kolbly <xxxxxx@rscheme.org>

   - The syntactic form has been renamed to DEFINE-RECORD-TYPE, with
      other renames in its wake.

I think this is a very bad idea.  I will never use this SRFI, for its
excessive & unnecessary overcomplexity & overengineering, but it would
be very annoying for it to break all code that uses SRFI 9 by usurping
the name DEFINE-RECORD-TYPE.  I'd suggest DEFINE-RECORD-TYPE* (though
I already use my own (very much simpler) macro called that),
DEFINE-COMPLEX-RECORD-TYPE, or something along those lines.